Example sentences of "not know why [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 2 | I do not know why my hon. Friend is not here today , but I know that she is a very hard-working , committed hon. Member . |
| 3 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 4 | The cat will see a bird and pursue it , to that extent knowing what it wants ; but it will not know why it is doing it , and to that extent what it is doing . |
| 5 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 6 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 7 | She did not know why she had come . |
| 8 | She did not know why she was crying . |
| 9 | She knows , but does not know why she knows , or what she knows . |
| 10 | She shook her head , even if she did not know why she shook her head , told this man anything . |
| 11 | She did not know why she should feel such fear , because she felt for her mother not respect , but contempt : and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently , pettily contemptible ? |
| 12 | Rachaela did not know why she had participated . |
| 13 | Never say you do not know why you picked certain subjects , or that other people decided for you , as this will show you in a negative light . |
| 14 | Jim Knox , an Oldham director , says that the club have fulfilled their financial obligations to Round and do not know why he is behaving in this way . |
| 15 | He did not know why he suddenly felt this way ; he was not angry with himself , or with us , and he was not crying . |
| 16 | He did not tell her that hers was the only female reputation he had ever given any thought to and that he did not know why he bothered . |
| 17 | Even his daughter did not know why he had chosen a house overlooking the railways or for that matter why he wanted to keep a school at all . |
| 18 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
| 19 | He does not know why he is like this . |
| 20 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 21 | When Mr Leckey asked whether the fact Moore telephoned her three times before the killings and once afterwards showed there was ‘ something special in the relationship ’ , she said she did not know why he called . |
| 22 | I do not know why I did it . |
| 23 | I do not know why I can not speak … and then a voice called her name . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not know why I even trust you , but I have no men trained to use their hearts in the way you are able to as a gift of Ptah . |
| 25 | ‘ I do not know why I should tell you , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Sometimes , as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window , I think how dismal it is , how hard , how heavy , to watch the rain and not know why it falls . |
| 27 | Meredith swallowed , not knowing why her skin was tingling as if it had been electrified . |
| 28 | There they were , crawling on one tiny planet , not knowing why they were there : all in the same boat — why did they need to defend themselves against each other ? |
| 29 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 30 | She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars . |